It’s that time of the year – holiday madness is upon us! We’re getting bombarded with TikToks and Reels showing you crap you don’t need, telling you that the more you buy the more you’ll be loved. We hear over and over again how the holidays are about love, kindness, spending time together, but all…
Happy Earth Day 2023
Happy Earth Week! Or Earth Day or Earth Month. Yup, they’re all a thing, but if you’re a die hard, dark green eco-warrior like me you don’t care because every day is a celebration of the big blue and green mama. In this house it’s AEAYR (All Earth All Year Round), but this time of…
My Favorite Bike Trails on Long Island
When I was younger and first learning how to ride a bike, my older brother took me out to our driveway to learn. It wasn’t a big driveway so each time I rode down it I’d have to turn left and ride back up the other side. In between, there was a ditch. I never…
The Gift of Wood…it’s not just for beavers
I am and always have been a terrible gift-giver. Gift cards, girly bath stuff, a necklace…those were always my go-to gifts. All of them safe, but unfortunately also rather generic. Back when I was a wee lass (that means a lot younger) I think my gift-giving peaked when I wanted to buy my grandmother something…
Was I writing about menopause? I can’t remember.
So we all know the joke that starts with “A man walks into a bar…” Well, have you heard the one that starts with “A woman walks into a room…”? Because if I’m the woman, then half the time I have no idea why I walked into the room in the first place. I’m a…
Goodbye September…Helloooooo April!
So, as my family loves to tease me about, I’m not much of a music person. When my husband met me, he was “impressed” with my Tito Puente CD collection (which still gets referenced to this day), and being a Long Island girl, I truly believed there was 2 kinds of music…Billy Joel and everything…
What a doll!
Not since Chucky (or in our feature image, the Bride of Chucky @barbiechulanyc) has there been such Buzz about a doll who is no longer where you left him last. I’m of course talking about the Elf on the Shelf…often imitated, never duplicated. He’s the little Elf doll that you secretly move around the house…
Compassion Is In Fashion
I read a lot of things on the internet. I always stop and shake my head when I come across some sort of inspirational quote which comes from a “questionable” source. “Don’t be a Dick” – Ghandi “Send Nudes, Not Hate” – Thomas Jefferson “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope” – Sun Tzu…